shingle oak

Questions about shingle oak

What is another word for shingle oak?

It depends which shingle oak you mean. In the sense “small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having leaves that shine like laurel; wood is used in western states for shingles”, the synonyms are laurel oak, Quercus imbricaria. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of shingle oak?

WordNet records no antonym for shingle oak. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for shingle oak come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of shingle oak

• Full entry for shingle oakAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for shingle oakWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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